On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:31:29PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >Right, and it took two years or so to change that. > > > >I don't think you'd be much faster than Angus _even if > >everybody agreed_. > > OK, so the only remaining possibility is to drop Win98/Me support.
Microsoft is not supporting them anymore themselves. > I will make that clear in the release notes of the new installer and > add an error message when someone would try to install using one of > these versions. Would be fine with me. > This is definitely a disadvantage of choosing a license with so many > restrictions. Choosing the GPL as license is always a political decision and I think most LyX contributors are aware of the implications. Andre'